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Have you ever been to Bennigan's, Mister? Oh, it sure is great. I'm goin' to Bennigan's tomorrow night with my family. Oh, I can just see it now. We'll walk in the front doors, and the nice Bennigan's hostess lady will take us to our cozy booth, and then we'll order some mozzarella sticks for appetizers. Dad will open his present, and Mom will open hers, uh then the Bennigan's wait staff will sing:

Happy Happy Anniversary from everyone at Bennigan's
Happy Happy Anniversary-eh from everyone at Bennigan's
Happy Happy Anniversary from everyone at Bennigan's
Happy Ha... whoa, are we stoppin' for sodas? Hey, can I have chocolate milk?

The Bennigan's restaurant chain has closed after its parent company files for bankruptcy. That's, like, every single restaurant in the chain, closed and locked up.

I'm not sure how much of a tear I can shed for a chain restaurant with food like every other chain restaurant of its ilk, but man, every restaurant just closing up like that is harsh.

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At one point, my whole resume was full of jobs where Reason for Leaving was "store closed" "division shut down" "company discontinued operations". Except for Penneys, where it was "found better job" but for references "No one I worked with including my supervisor, manager, and the store manager is there any longer."

It's getting like that again - they've laid off 1/3 of the people who worked at the Strib when I was there, and they'd downsized a good chunk more before that.

It's a terrible thing to show up for work one morning and find the placed locked and dark.